Coach_J:The stolen and faked passport thing is really common place around the world.

Some countries (US, UK, Canada, Germany, etc.) are extraordinarily on top of passport security and control and others like Greece, Italy and Albania don't give two shiats about it...it's about 5,000th on their "things we care about list".

/found this out when we did an M&A of an Italian company//35% of the worker documentation was stolen and forged///mostly to evade taxes, BTW

Yeah, but, one was an Australian passport! Isn't that a hot bead of extremism, beer drinking and snake biting (don't even mention the farking spiders). Without proper security, he probably smuggled a sheila and a barbie on board, and that was all she wrote.

Maturin:CNN article says the two passengers with the stolen Italian and Austrian passports had tickets that were bought together. They were to go from Beijing to Amsterdam then split up, going to Copenhagen and Frankfort.

Copenhagen I can understand, but Frankfort? There are many more beautiful places in Kentucky to visit.

/Frankfurt-am-Main has a nice art museum, I don't know if there's much else to see

elvisaintdead:and if it augured in, wouldn't there have been some sort of "oh shiat" message from the cockpit, and/or 200+ cell phones lighting up (service or not)? which leads us back to the big go-boom and the debris field...

riding a fuselage for 5-6 mins all the way down to your absolute death is a certain hell unto itself. *shudder*

I'm sure that would be an inconceivable hell. But don't assume they would necessarily have time for a distress message. The priorities of flying are, in this order: Aviate, navigate, communicate. If you're fighting to regain control of a doomed aircraft, it may not be top priority to radio someone to let them know just how farked you are. Like "Hey, air traffic control, we're boned. Really boned. You can't help us, but we thought we'd take the time to let you know we're like ROYALLY screwed here. Over."

Purdue_Pete:Still the worst movie I have ever sat through in its entirety.

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The freeze frame, jumping ending made it even more epic.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfV3wPmyS_w

It was stupid, with a stupid filling, covered with a nice stupid frosting and a stupid cherry on to top. The guy in the yellow shirt, appears to be running in the most stupid way possible, to keep with the stupid theme of the movie.

super_grass: Welp, time for the TSA to ask for even more FREEDOM PAPERS at the airport.

Only for the poor and the blah. We trust the white rich people.

You honestly expected messiah hope-n-change to get the alphabets off the backs of the little people? It went from bush's idiotic "Take off your shoes" policy to "We're gonna grab you child's dick" under zero.

susler:BillArr: The more I hear about this the more I think that there was someone on that plane that the governments wanted dead. There is no way with current technology that a major airliner can vanish without a trace...we can read a license plate from space, nobody is going to convince me that some lettered agency does not know exactly what happened to this plane.

"nobody is going to convince me" is a pretty closed minded response. That's exactly what the anti vaxxers, truthers, young worlders, climate change deniers, politically correct proponents and that trans woman whose name I forgot say; "nobody is going to convince me"

Good for you.

If the government wants you dead, they certianly don't need to blow up a plane to do it.Unles you think British spies strangle themselves and then zip themselves up in a suitcase and padlock the outside.

Or just pull a David Carradine on you. (The same David Carradine they pulled on David Carradine)

coffeeplease:susler: BillArr: The more I hear about this the more I think that there was someone on that plane that the governments wanted dead. There is no way with current technology that a major airliner can vanish without a trace...we can read a license plate from space, nobody is going to convince me that some lettered agency does not know exactly what happened to this plane.

"nobody is going to convince me" is a pretty closed minded response. That's exactly what the anti vaxxers, truthers, young worlders, climate change deniers, politically correct proponents and that trans woman whose name I forgot say; "nobody is going to convince me"

Good for you.

It's amusing to watch threads get turned into liberal circle jerks and here is the first attempt in this thread.

Dunno. That swipe against the trans community is going to cost him a few lib fair trade organic brownie points.